Seasonal & Holidays Word Searches

Browse our seasonal & holidays word searches. Free to play online and print with answer keys, great for kids and classrooms.

11 Puzzles

Gymnasium comes from a Greek word that means to exercise naked.

The word bonfire comes from bone fire, when people burned bones in open community blazes.

The first jack-o'-lanterns were carved from turnips, not pumpkins, in Ireland.

The turkey got its name by mistake, confused with African fowl traded through Turkey.

Warmed only by the bodies inside, a well-built igloo can reach 60 degrees.

Reindeer are the only deer in which both sexes grow antlers.

China's first fireworks were burning bamboo, whose cracks were believed to scare off evil spirits.

Cupid began as Eros, the powerful Greek god of desire, and only later shrank into the chubby winged baby on cards.

A butterfly tastes with its feet, drumming on a leaf to check the plant before it lays eggs.

The egg-laying Easter bunny began as the German Osterhase, a hare written about in 1678.

An 11-year-old invented the popsicle by accident, leaving soda and a stir stick out overnight.